State Fair of Texas

Very unusual footwear

Bezalel Academy of Art & Design grad Kobi Levi’s “Chewing Gum” — high heels designed to resemble stepping in gum.

Part of his ongoing “artistic footwear” collection.

Levi says:

The shoe is my canvas. the trigger to create a new piece comes when an idea, a concept and/or an image comes to mind. The combination of the image and footwear creates a new hybrid and the design/concept comes to life. The piece is a wearable sculpture.

Photo series of the day

Ria van Dijk has been visiting a local shooting every year since 1936 to take advantage of the attraction’s prize: Hit the target, have your picture taken.

The Dutch woman’s dedication to her annual tradition is documented in Erik Kessels and Joep Eijkens’s photo book, In Almost Every Picture #7.

 The chronological series begins in 1936, when a 16-year-old girl from Tilburg in Holland picks up a gun and shoots at the target in a shooting gallery. Every time she hits the target, it triggers the shutter of a camera and a portrait of the girl in firing pose is taken and given as a prize. 

And so a lifelong love affair with the shooting gallery begins. This series documents almost every year of the woman's life (there is a conspicuous pause from 1939 to 1945) up until present times. 

At the age of 88 Ria van Dijk still makes her pilgrimage to the Shooting Gallery.

In almost every picture #7 is a biography of one woman's life from an unusual perspective, one which allows us to witness the times she lived in, as well as acting as a revealing look at the changing face of photography through the decades.

How about that of the day

The Charybdis — named after the better half of the infamous sea monster tag team — is a “reverse fountain” designed by William Pye for Sunderland’s Seaham Hall hotel “using a massive acrylic cylinder to give the appearance of a containerless volume of water.”

See it in action here.

Stop-motion short of the day

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Jeremy Messersmith’s wistful papercraft ode to the twin suns of Tatooine recreates the entire Star Wars Trilogy in two minutes.


However, the lack of Obi-Wan Kenobi is greatly disappointing. Also needs some more Han Solo action in there.

Stop-motion short of the day

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Moleskine promotes their special 30th anniversary line of Pac-Man-themed merch with a silly-cute stop-motion short featuring their signature notebook.

Pictures from class